NAIDOC week is not empty gesture politics. Nor is it new – it’s been around for decades. Every government department and every government in Australia promotes and participates in it. That it is named (in your mind at least) in a way that doesn’t convey its significance to you doesn’t change the fact that it is both a big deal and a venerable one.

I will return to a single facepalm stance if your “empty gesture politics” line was about the ACT ATSIEB – I doubt there will be ACTATSIEB Weeks celebrated in every city and town of this country in 50 years time.

*sigh* it is a sad day indeed when a news site, that prides itself on being ahead of the dead tree media, says of NAIDOC week, “Yes indigenous affairs has come to the pass where we have a week to honour a committee set up to observe a day”.

I was going to write a dissertation on the origins of NAIDOC and its importance in the struggle for Indigenous rights but will have to satisfy myself with *facepalm*

If they were to be truely PC, then it would be ACTIEB (ACT Indigenous Elected Body)

Most Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people who live here are from other areas and had parents or themselves move here for the public service so Canberra has both Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people. (also it’s Islands there is more than one Island in the Torres Strait)

Indigenous is on it’s way out it’s going back to Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people abbriviated as AaTSI